Settling The West

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Why did the Homestead Act encourage people to move West?

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offered free land to those willing to farm it.

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What might a vigilante in a boomtown have been likely to say?

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"Let's give crooks the kind of justice they deserve."

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Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs? Options: Cotton, Deer, Buffalo, Gold

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Buffalo

Front

Colonel George Armstrong Custer is best known for his..

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disastrous loss in Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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Why did settlers moving west think the Great Plains were not fit for farming?

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The area received little rainfall and had few trees.

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One of the primary purposes of the Dawes Act was to..

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turn Native Americans into farmers.

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Sodbusters

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Great Plains farmers.

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Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.

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reservation

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When the mines ran out in Boom-towns and the people moved on it often created ____________

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Ghost towns

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What played a major role in the mining and cattle industry for transporting?

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railroads